There seemed to be so much detail to attend to and signals to arrange that I was almost tempted to ask them how escadrillesever managed to co-operate so well in the presence of the enemy air squadrons.
They are armed with mitrailleuses or small, non-recoil cannon, but on account of their low speed their daylight flights are attended by "escadrilles de chasse.
Occasionally the bombarding escadrilles have thrilling experiences to narrate.
The captain of one of theescadrilles had visiting him his younger brother, a bright lad of nineteen.
Think of coming in here and talking to the men, very likely about the murder itself; and knowing you've done it; and wondering how they'd look if THEY knew!
But, besides all that, when you were caught there'd be a merciful and dramatic end of you.
Meanwhile they were preparing the Somme battle; the escadrilles familiarized themselves with their ground, and new machines were tried.
The best protection is afforded by the chasing units, fitted to spread terror and death far afield, or to stop enemyescadrilles bound on a similar errand.
But the methodical Germans, without delay, supplied their constructors with definite types of machines in order to make their escadrilles harmonious.
As at the battle of the Somme, so at the battle of the Aisne our aërial escadrilles were in close touch with the general staff and the other arms of the service.
The groups belonging to our fighting escadrilles on both banks of the Somme achieved this result.
Our escadrilles had done their duty as scouts before the attack.
Since then methods have changed, and the future belongs to fighting escadrilles or groups of machines.
To economize and coördinate strength, all the fighting escadrilles at Verdun were grouped under the sole command of Major de Rose.
For instance, it is stated that there were thirty escadrilles of Bleriot monoplanes together with pilots at the front, in addition to thirty mixed escadrilles of the other prohibited types with their fliers.
Moreover a round 33 escadrilles of all the various types were in reserve.
The eightescadrilles of fighting machines form a rather interesting colony.
There were no arrangements for cooking and the Americans depended on the other escadrilles for food.
These are handled by escadrilles equipped with bigger machines.
Frequently pilots from other escadrilles will be our guests in passing through our sector, and through these visitations we keep in touch with the aërial news of the day, and with our friends along the front.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "escadrilles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
